XFindBugs: eXtended FindBugs for AspectJ

Haihao Shen; Sai Zhang; Jianjun Zhao; Jianhong Fang; Shiyuan Yao

doi:10.1145/1512475.1512490

XFindBugs: eXtended FindBugs for AspectJ

Haihao Shen, Sai Zhang, Jianjun Zhao, Jianhong Fang, Shiyuan Yao

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Abstract

Aspect-oriented software development (AOSD) is gaining popularity with the wider adoption of languages such as AspectJ. However, though the state-of-the-art aspect-oriented programming environment (such as AJDT in the Eclipse IDE) provides powerful capabilities to check the syntactic or grammar errors in AspectJ programs, it fails to detect potential semantic defects in aspect-oriented software systems. In this paper, we present XFindBugs, an eXtended FindBugs for AspectJ, to help programmers find potential bugs in AspectJ applications through static analysis. XFindBugs supports 17 bug patterns to cover common error-prone features in an aspect-oriented system, and integrates the corresponding bug detectors into the FindBugs framework. We evaluate XFindBugs on a number of large-scale open source AspectJ projects (306,800 LOC in total). In our evaluation, XFindBugs confirms 7 reported bugs and finds 257 previously unknown defects. Our experiment also indicates that the bug patterns supported in XFindBugs exist in real-world software systems, even for mature applications by experienced programmers.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2008 SIGSOFT/SIGPLAN Workshop on Program Analysis for Software Tools and Engineering, PASTE '08
Pages	70-76
Number of pages	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1512475.1512490
Publication status	Published - Dec 1 2008
Externally published	Yes
Event	2008 SIGSOFT/SIGPLAN Workshop on Program Analysis for Software Tools and Engineering, PASTE '08 - Atlanta, GA, United States Duration: Nov 9 2008 → Nov 10 2008

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Other	2008 SIGSOFT/SIGPLAN Workshop on Program Analysis for Software Tools and Engineering, PASTE '08
Country/Territory	United States
City	Atlanta, GA
Period	11/9/08 → 11/10/08

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Shen, H, Zhang, S, Zhao, J, Fang, J & Yao, S 2008, XFindBugs: eXtended FindBugs for AspectJ. in Proceedings of the 2008 SIGSOFT/SIGPLAN Workshop on Program Analysis for Software Tools and Engineering, PASTE '08. pp. 70-76, 2008 SIGSOFT/SIGPLAN Workshop on Program Analysis for Software Tools and Engineering, PASTE '08, Atlanta, GA, United States, 11/9/08. https://doi.org/10.1145/1512475.1512490

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